. Historic Virginia homes and churches . s developed inthe people a passionate loyalty to home and section. TIMBERNECK Upon the Gloucester shore, opposite Ringfield, anample, rambling, old homestead gazes upon the York. This is Timberneck, where in an earlier house theINIann family lived. Mary INIann, born at Timberneck in1672, the only child and heiress of John Mann (1631-1694)of England and Virginia, married JNIathew Page (1659-1703), son of Colonel John Page (1627-1691-2), the firstof his family in Virginia, and the couple took up theirabode at Timberneck. They named their only survivingson
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . s developed inthe people a passionate loyalty to home and section. TIMBERNECK Upon the Gloucester shore, opposite Ringfield, anample, rambling, old homestead gazes upon the York. This is Timberneck, where in an earlier house theINIann family lived. Mary INIann, born at Timberneck in1672, the only child and heiress of John Mann (1631-1694)of England and Virginia, married JNIathew Page (1659-1703), son of Colonel John Page (1627-1691-2), the firstof his family in Virginia, and the couple took up theirabode at Timberneck. They named their only survivingson Mann, and the name has been handed down in thePage and related families ever since, so that though the THE YORK iUWAi COIXTUY ^217 family name of these Maims died out witli tlie immigrant,as a suiiiame, more than two huiuhed years a^o, it has l>eeiiborne as a Christian name liy many deseendants in everygeneration sinee. After the Kevohition tlie Timberneek plantation passedto the Catlett family, who hiiilt the present house and have. TIMBERNECK, GLOICESTER COUNTY oceupied it for five generations. They are descended fromMary (1698-1703-4), wife of John ^Mann, by her firstmarriage watli Edmund Berkeley, of Gloucester , bearing arms of John ISiann and Mary, his wife,may still be seen at Timberneek. POWHATANS CHIMXEY Upon the Timl)erneck estate, just across TimberneekCreek, from the homestead, long stood a huge old, mas-sively built, stone chimney. Tradition from so early a datethat the memory of man runneth not to the contrary hasinsisted that here was the site of Werowocomoeo, the favor-ite residence of Powhatan; that here the Princess Poca- 218 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CHURCHES hoiitas saved the life of Captain John Smith, and that thiscliinmey belonjed to the house which the Enghsh colonistssent Dutchmen to AVerowocomoco to build for the Indianking. The accuracy of this tradition has been lately disputedby some writers, but tlie chimney was evidently of greatage, and
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